{"id":77465,"date":"2021-04-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77465"},"modified":"2021-04-14T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:55:51","slug":"michael-savage-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77465","title":{"rendered":"Michael Savage – Prophet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was never a big Michael Savage fan – but I totally got his schtick. Confrontration draws people – people who agree, and those who don’t but who enjoy beating their heads against the wall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me being me, I didn’t much care for the title of his book, Liberalism is a Mental DIsorder<\/em>. But <\/em>I got the idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And maybe Savage was onto something – more correlative than causative, perhaps, but something: white “progressive” women appear very likely to have some sort of mental health-related diagnosis<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study<\/a>, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even \u201cvery liberal.\u201d What\u2019s more, white women suffered the worst of all. White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Which is not posted, in the study, article or here as a point of mockery – I’ve had my own battles with depression, so that dog don’t track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, as the article goes on to point out, the correlation between pathology and political behavior could be a whole lot more interesting than the browbeating potential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As to diagnosing the whole movement? I’ve placed that bet<\/a> long ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was never a big Michael Savage fan – but I totally got his schtick. Confrontration draws people – people who agree, and those who don’t but who enjoy beating their heads against the wall. Me being me, I didn’t much care for the title of his book, Liberalism is a Mental DIsorder. But I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77466,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77465\/revisions\/77466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}